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22 lines
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Markdown
Jonah Goes to Nineveh
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# Chapter 3
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1. Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:
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2. "Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you."
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3. This time Jonah obeyed the LORD's command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.
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4. On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: "Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!"
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5. The people of Nineveh believed God's message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.
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6. When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes.
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7. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city:
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"No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all.
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8. People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.
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9. Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us."
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10. When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.
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